Russian Z-blogger complains that regional officials are meeting Kremlin recruitment quotas by sending severe alcoholics to the front lines, while "black recruiters" steal their military salaries.
Sounds like they're trying to build the foundation for their own version of the "stabbed-in-the-back myth" that infected Germany in the interwar period.
The German delusion that led to to two world wars was buying their own militarist propaganda and believing they could fight the whole world.
They did stab themselves in the back, and then told themselves lies about why they lost that blamed anything but the real culprit, a national delusion that they were better than their neighbors.
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Aidinthel@reddthat.com · 21 pts · 155d
Sounds like they're trying to build the foundation for their own version of the "stabbed-in-the-back myth" that infected Germany in the interwar period.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 155d
Except they stabbed themselves in the back. And I don't think they're making it up
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 5 pts · 154d
The German delusion that led to to two world wars was buying their own militarist propaganda and believing they could fight the whole world.
They did stab themselves in the back, and then told themselves lies about why they lost that blamed anything but the real culprit, a national delusion that they were better than their neighbors.
fist_of_fartitude@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 155d
Maybe but it's also 100% plausible.